#MeToo in Kei
November 23rd 2018 Travelling offers all kinds of interesting experiences, like sleeping in a pod hotel at Jakarta Airport for instance. I have never slept in a pod hotel, and since my flight to Ambon had inexplicably been rescheduled to the morning after my arrival in Jakarta, I decided this was the opportunity to try one out. It was a futuristic looking contraption, a square hole in a long row of square holes, dim
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Home and Away
Bob Carlsen
Banda Island and nutmeg...
So the English discovered and claimed this island and the Dutch claimed the rest of the East Indies. Banda was the only place in the world that had nutmeg; more than worth its weight in gold. So the Dutch wanted this island, by force as necessary. Finally, the two parties arranged a swap. The English gave Banda to the Dutch, and in return the Dutch gave Manhattan Island to the English...and the English took some nutmeg plants to grow elsewhere.